Description: This volume is the joint conference proceedings of the International Conference on Functional Materials (ICFM 2019), held in Sendai, Japan during Sep.4-6, 2019. The presented papers cover wide-variety topics from modern materials science and materials processing technologies, focuses on the important categories, including environmental engineering, electronic materials, and energy materials.

Potential Development in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells for Renewable Energy

Edited by: Alagarsamy Pandikumar and R. Jothilakshmi

Online since: October 2013

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters BCI (WoS).
The development of photovoltaic technology is expected to solve problems related to energy shortages and environmental pollution caused by the use of fossil fuels. Dye-sensitizedsolar cells (DSSCs) are promising next-generation alternatives to conventional silicon-based photovoltaic devices owing to their low manufacturing cost and potentially high conversion efficiency. This special topic volume addresses recent advances in the research on dye-sensitized solar cells. The focus of this special topic volume is on materials development (sensitizers, nanostructured oxide films, and electrolyte), but commercialization. This work illustrates a new pathway to achieve highly efficient DSSCs for practical applications.